The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-07-07

them, but soon DecOmC IOnu OF lHcHI
and gain rapidly. l think them espec-
tally valuable to feed the Spring pigs
and the brood sows and there is no
cheaper or better food for the cows at
the season when pastures are usually
short. The farmer who has an abun-
dant supply Of pumpkins for three
months in the Fall will save much corn
and be likely to have thrifty stock.
STRAWBERRIES AND GRAPES.
The man who made his strawberry
bed on his poorest land for fear he would
have too much vine and too little fruit,
has found that his vines are small. ac-
cording to expectation, but his berries
are small, too. Next time he will give
his strawberries abundant manure.
Pinch of the canes Of your grapevines,
leaving three or four leaves beyond the
last cluster. The leaves viii grow
large and suffice to elaborate sap for
fsuit growth. The plant will not ex-
pend its energies in running out long
cane to be cut back next Winter. but
will make large fruit and strong buds
for next years. growth.
RANDOM NOTES.
Never wiring or tear cucumbers from
the vine. Cut of with a sharp knife
or scissors.
In Ohio wheat will be cut and bound
with Irvine, furnished by the machine
men. at seventy five cents per acre.
1t is claimed that single acres Of for
est on the Pacific coast have yielded
1000, 900 feet Of lumber, board meas
ure.
Remember that fresh Buhach in wat.
err kept tightly corked in a bottle, one
tablespoonful to two gallons, is excel.
liant to keep flies from worrying our
work horses. Battle the animals on
various parts Of the body once in al
hour or so.
The horseradish produces no seed
There is no need of seed, however
from the ease with which it is prop
agated underground, or rather thu
difficulty there is Of exterminating it!
roots. Professor Halsted's botany
class finds that the stamens produced
little or no plump, healthy pollen.
| An Ohio farmer finds the average cos
of raising sugar beets or mangels pei
acre to be from $50 to $40, and an aver
age yield is from 500 to 700 bushels
Last year he got about 500 bushels O.
sugar beets per acre, at cost Of about
$50 per acre.
| Six hundred measurements to deter
mine the relative growth of ten specie.
of evergreens on the college grounds al
Ames, Iowa: gave the following annual
averages of growth for four years past
White pine, 1917 inches; Scotch pine
10.6; red pine, 1913; Austrian pine, 9.4
European larcl, 81; American larch
9.3: Norway spruce, 81; white spruce
"a; black spruce, So; balsam fir. &c
To prevent potato scab, Mr.. Alfred
Rose uses four bushels quicklime, 12t
pounds of sulphur; both Stacked togeth
er with hot water, and well mixed; l:
bushels of hardwood ashes. 200 pounds
Of fine salt, 400 pounds Of plaster. Thi
is well mixed together, and will be suffi
cient for two acres. Sulphur alone i
not effectual; it should be slaKed a
stated. After the seed is dropped tn
mixture is scattered in and all through
the trenches.
| Harry Wilkes, the reigning sensation
among trotters. with record of 2.133
Maud S., 2.O8s; Jay-Eye-See, 2.1O
Smiggler. for long time king of trot
ting stations. all had dams of pacin,
Inheritance. Eight pacingbred horse
have sired about Is per cent Of tn
mares that have two or more Of thei
produce in the $50 class. 1t wonl
seem that stout pacing cross on til
dam side is favorable to the production
Of fast trotting offspring.